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Baseball Musings
August 24, 2008
Interfering with Victory

The White Sox take the final game of their series with Tampa Bay 6-5 in 10 innings (lots of extra innings games today). A.J. Pierzynski figured almost won the game single handedly. He singled to start the inning, then moved up to second on a fly ball to Upton. He then made a mistake, getting caught in a run-down on a grounder by Dye, but Willy Aybar was called for interference and A.J. took third on the play. After an intentional walk to Thome, Alexei Ramirez singles in A.J. for the win. The White Sox keep pace with the Red Sox in the wild card race, and could take first in the AL Central if the Twins fail to hold their 3-1 lead over the Angels.


Posted by David Pinto at 05:25 PM | Games | TrackBack (0)
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Make sure you catch the highlights of the "interference" play at some point tonight, David.

Aybar had gotten out of the way, then Pierzynski threw his elbow out at him and fell down. One of the worst calls I've ever seen.

Posted by: Vegas Watch at August 24, 2008 05:38 PM

I'll have to watch it again. I thought Aybar got a hand on him before the elbow.

Posted by: David Pinto at August 24, 2008 05:47 PM

Just another page in the Eddings/Pierzynski novel, and another tribute to aweful umpiring by Doug Eddings.

Eddings should be sent back to Little League, he's an ass!

Posted by: Mark Seagle at August 24, 2008 06:05 PM

You can watch the play on the clickable linescore on mlb.com. It was truly a bad call and I don't think Eddings was in the right position to make the call either way. If anything he should have let it go and conferred with someone.

Posted by: Matt at August 24, 2008 06:09 PM

Yeah, that call was just terrible. AJ tried to throw a shoulder/elbow into Aybar as he slid past but missed, lost his balanced, and fell on his butt... and then was awarded 3rd base.

I don't know how the 3rd base umpire didn't see it - from that angle, there's no doubt what happened.

Posted by: zenny at August 24, 2008 06:17 PM

I don't know if Eddings was in the right position, but from his angle I could see how it might have looked like it was obstruction.

As they sail through life, Eddings and Pierzynski seem to be "in the same boat."

Posted by: Tor at August 24, 2008 07:40 PM

That's a friggin' horrible call. Give AJ props for diving at the guy but mising that call is ridiculous.

Posted by: Bandit at August 25, 2008 11:24 AM
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